What Does This Mean?
Brazilian Portuguese gaming slang for a character, weapon or mechanic that is too strong and breaks the balance of a game, as in "esse herói está imba". It is a clipping of "imbalanced" and is used much like "overpowered" or "apelão".
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
""Esse herói está imba depois do patch", the player wrote in the match chat."
LORE & ORIGIN
The word is a clipping of English "imbalanced", already recorded in English as video-game slang alongside "OP", "UP" and "nerf"; a related form also exists in Russian gaming speech. Brazilian players use it with the Portuguese verb estar. No Brazilian glossary opened for this entry defines it, and no dated first use in Portuguese is documented, so the Portuguese sense rests on the English dictionary entry and on observed use.
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